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Undergraduate education in special needs dentistry in Malaysian and Australian dental schools.
J Dent Educ
August 2014
Dr. Ahmad is a Ph.D. student in Special Needs Dentistry, Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne and Lecturer, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia; Dr. Razak is Professor of Community Dentistry and Vice Chancellor, Vinayaka Missions International University College, Malaysia; and Dr. Borromeo is Associate Professor and Course Convener for Special Needs Dentistry, Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne.
Meeting the oral health care needs of the growing population of people with special health care needs (SHCN) starts with dental students' acquisition of sound knowledge and development of clinical competence at the predoctoral level. The aim of this study was to review the level of undergraduate education in Special Needs Dentistry (SND) in Malaysian and Australian dental schools. The deans of all six Malaysian public dental schools and eight of nine Australian dental schools participated in a postal survey on current undergraduate didactic and clinical training in SND at their institutions.
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